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MECHANISM FOR MAKING WAGON BOX STRAPS.

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MECHANISM FOR MAKING WAGON BOX. STRAPS. No 270,176. Pagented Jan. 2 1883.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS J. BRAY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO OLIVER BROTHERS & PHILLIPS, OF SAME PLACE.

MECHANISM FOR MAKING WAGON-BOX'STRAPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,176, dated January 2, 1853.

7 Application filed March 28, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J; BRAY, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon-BoX-Strap- Finishing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof. Heretofore wagon-box straps have been drawn out in rolls, shearedon a separate machine, and then the upper end bent to fit'over the top edge of the box by hand. This necessarily involves additional labor, and is a comparatively slow operation. Another objection to the former operation is, that as the straps are drawn out in a grooved roll the reduction of the strap produces a certain amount of lateral spread, which causes the iron to fin and bind in the groove. 2o The object of the present invention is, first, to put the strap in such a form that when passed through the rolls it will not bind in the groove, and, second, to bend the strap and shear off the ragged end in the same set of dies and at one operation.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and'use my invention, 1 will now describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-- 3o Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a verticalcross-section of the rolls on the line 0cm. Fig.3 is a plan view. Figs. 4=and 5 are perspective views of the bevelingdies. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the shearing and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the same dies closed. Figs. 8, 9, 10, and 11 are views of the strap in various stages of completion. Fig. 12, Sheet 2, is a view of the cam-yoke of the slide. Like letters of reference indicate like parts in each.

Upon a suitable bed-plate, g, is a pair of housings,.d d, in which are mounted the rolls a b. The roll b is aplain roll. The roll a is 5 cut away, as at a, for the insertion of the strap between the rolls against a stop, p, on the opposite side. The uncut portion of the roll a is grooved, as, at- 0?, the groove growing shallower until it merges into the periphery of the roll.

the strap is placed.

It will be seen that the bottomof the groove 0 is eccentric to the axis of the roll.

On one end of the shaft 11 of the lower roll,

I), is a head, 0 upon which is a cam, 0

The frame fisplaced upon that end of the bedg which cont-amsthe beveling-dies. One bevelingdie, e, is movable, and is fastened to the end of a reciprocatingpress, c, which is operated by means of a ram-yoke, c, and a cam, 0 and is secured in the framef, in which it slides, by means ofa cap, 0 The stationary 6o beveling-die c is secured to a standard, f, at the other end of the frame f, and is placed with relation to the die 0 so that the end of the strap when placethbetween the dies shall be compressed thereby. 6 5

On the die 0 is a flat surface, c upon which At the end of the surface 6 is astraight edge, :2 which acts as a stop and limits the insertion'of the strap. Back of, the flat surface 6 is an oblique side, e, and a straight side, e

The workin'g-face'of the die 0 may be similar in outline to that of the die 6 at e e, and 0 or it may have a plain face.

The strap, in the form shown by Fig. 8, is placed on the surface c and is subjected to the action of the die 6, and is therebytransformed to the shape shown by Fig. 9, the end being tapered and thickened up. Where the oblique face a is made on the die e alone the strap will require to be turned and subjected to two operations of the die 0.

On theend of the shaft to of the roll a is a pinion, a, which meshes into a pinion, b on the shaft b of the roll b, and is driven thereby. 8 Onthe shaft b-,beyond the pinion b ,is alarge gear-wheel, b Outside of the gear-wheel b is a second large gear-wheel, i, which is mounted on the shaft 43. The gear-wheels b and i are in the same horizontal plane; but the wheel t" is set back of the wheel b Belowthe bedplate g and in the crotch of the wheels b and t" is the power-shaft h, which drives the wheels I) and t" by means of the pinion h, which is mounted thereon. Power is communicated to the shaft h by means of gearing, pulley, clutch, or other suitable device.

On the shaft t is a cam, l, which, by mean of a cam-yoke, l, operates a slide, 1 upon lbox, but also bends it without distortion or ways formed in the frame F on one end of the bed of the machine. On the end of the slide 1 is the movab e cutting and bending die at. Fastened to the frame, in front of the moving die, m, is the fixed shearing and bending die The die at has a knife, m,and a bending cavity or matrix, m thejaws m of which are rounded, so as to .cause the strap to be bent without distortion against a mandrel upon the fixed die n. The fixed die n has a knife or cutting edge, n, which, operating in connection With the knife m of the die or, severs the ragged end of the strap. It has a mandrel, n which, operating in connection with the matrix m bends the strap. When open the dies at and n are sufficiently far apart to permit the feeding of the strap between them and between the knives m n. When they are closed the knife m, passing the knife n, cuts off the ragged end of the strap, and the die at bends the strap around the mandrel 11 as shown in Fig.3.

The cavity m" (shown in Fig. 7) is of the proper width to accommodate the strap when the dies are closed. Thus the operations of trimming and bending the endot' the strap are accomplished byone movement of the machine.

- The bevel'communicated to the strap by the beveling-dies is such as to prevent the strap from being transformed into a dovetail shape by the drawing out or rolling operation, and yet thickens up the strap to such an extent that the rolling operation will draw it out to a The operation of the bending and cutting dies is such that it not only leaves the strap in aperlectly-finished condition, ready for its application to the side-boards of the wagonstraining the metal.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wagon-box-strap machine, the combination ofdie e, having the flat surface e and oblique side a, with the sliding die-e, said dies.

being relatively varranged to co-operate in transforming the end of the blank,'substantially as specified.

2. In a wagon-box-strap-finishing machine,

the combination of the roll a, cutaway, as at a,

and hav ing a groove, 0?, whose bottom is eccentric to the axis of said roll, and the roll b, having avplain surface arranged to coact with the the rectangularmatrix m and knife or cutting edge m, with the die at, having the rectangular mandrel a and knife or cnttingedge n, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

5. The method herein describedof finishing wagon-box straps, consisting of the following steps: first, upsetting or compressing the end ofthe blank transversely, whereby the same is beveled and thickened; secondly, drawing ontthe blank longitudinally, whereby the blank is tapered uniformly; and, finally, shearing or trimming and bending theblank,substantially as-and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of March, A. D. 18:52.

THUS. J. BRAY. 

